Night Attendant, emergency reception center St-Lambrechts-Woluwe (Replacement)

Intro

Millions of people are fleeing war, hunger, persecution or natural disasters. Most of them reside in third-world countries. But people also arrive in Belgium in search of a new home and a safe haven.
At the request of the government, Red Cross-Flanders receives refugees in a temporary emergency reception center in Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe.

Job description

• You are jointly responsible for the practical organization of the reception center;
• You ensure adequate application of the internal regulations;
• You are jointly responsible for the psychosocial counseling of applicants for international protection;
• You take care of administrative (mail, etc.) and logistical tasks (stock management, etc.);
• You ensure a good information flow;
• You have a signaling function to the center manager.

Your profile

• You have at least a secondary education degree in a people-oriented field and have gained experience in conversation techniques (and can discuss sensitive issues)
• You speak and understand English fluently (= the working language in the center). Other languages are an asset.
• You have experience in working with people from different cultural backgrounds.
• Ideally, you have several years of experience in psychosocial counseling of people in vulnerable situations (e.g., as an educator, social worker, counselor, etc.)
• You have a hands-on-mentality.
• You are willing to work in a shift system with weekend shifts and are flexible.
• You work fluently and efficiently with different applications within MS Office (including Word, Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint). At the same time you have experience with elec-tronic follow-up of resident files. Knowledge and/or experience with SharePoint is a plus.
• You are an organizational talent and administratively accurate.
• You are empathetic and diplomatic, but can also set clear boundaries.

Our offer

• Full-time position (38h/week);
• Waking nights from 9:45 pm to 8 am, working on a cycle of 7 consecutive nights alternating with 7 consecutive days off;
• Replacement contract (minimum 6 months);
• Emergency shelter clause: duration depends on government assignment in the context of organizing emergency shelter for applicants for international protection;
• Salary according to scale 224 in PC 319.00: we take half of your total years of work experience in account for your seniority.
• For working at night, you will receive an average shift bonus of 24.93%;
• Meal vouchers of 8 Euro per day;
• Group insurance and possibility of joining hospitalization insurance (with personal con-tribution);
• Commuting by train is fully reimbursed - in a bus subscription we intervene 75%, a net bicycle allowance of 0,36€/km; reimbursement of other means of transport (car, mo-torcycle) is in accordance with sectoral and legal rules.

Place of work

• Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe